A hat tip to an anonymous reader for providing the information above. The original (mis)information attributing the quote to Wilde came from Born to be Wilde, where the byline is a great quote from Wilde: "I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."

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It's actually from JM Barrie's 1902 play "The Admirable Crichton", and said by the character Ernest Woolley, who is a satire on the typical Wilde epigram-loving hero.

It is, however, based on Wilde's "The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything" - from Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young (1894).Source(s):Google Books http://books.google.co.uk/books?client=f…

It's actually from JM Barrie's 1902 play "The Admirable Crichton", and said by the character Ernest Woolley, who is a satire on the typical Wilde epigram-loving hero.

It is, however, based on Wilde's "The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything" - from Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young (1894).Source(s):Google Books http://books.google.co.uk/books?client=f…

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